Help, my teen Sims are trapped in a vicious cycle of misery and crushes

polygon.com:

Normally when I play The Sims 4, I don’t make any Sims younger than a “young adult.” I tend to make original characters or re-create my friends in the game, but I never had interest in controlling young sims and dealing with their learned traits or school issues.

That said, when my manager said I should check out the High School Years expansion pack to write gameplay guides for it, I did what any normal person would do: I made myself, my husband, and a close friend as teenaged Sims, and put them into a house together without adult supervision.

I recognize that these teens being full of pent up sexual desire and rage is my own fault. I had forgotten thatThe Sims4 added sexual orientation and preference, and I forgot to set the two guys’ orientations to straight (as they are in real life) in-game.

Right off the bat, my husband’s Sim entered a “flirty” mood and began to flirt with the Sim that looks like me. He formed a crush on her, which I thought was funny and endearing. However, things shifted almost immediately after, as his Sim turned to our friend’s Sim and began to flirt with him, too. They also developed crushes on each other. Awkward.

I attempted to update their sexual preferences in Create-a-Sim, but the damage had already been done. Everyone had crushes on each other. At that point, I didn’t know that I could make them get over their crushes, so I panicked. There was now a complete love triangle-circle-oblong in the house, which consisted of the teenage versions of myself, my husband, and a close friend. And unfortunately it made the teens moody and awful.

These teen Sims kept flipping emotions on a dime. If they weren’t in a “flirty” or “very flirty” mood, they were “tense” from being around a crush, or even